Month: November 2017

It all started about this time last year, when Bibliophilly cataloger Erin Connelly began tweeting out gloomy images from the Office of the Dead sections of Books of Hours during Advent. (PACSCL amanuensis objected vehemently when so many lovely Nativity images could have been used instead.)

Fast forward to late summer this year, and BiblioPhilly cataloger Diane Biunno also posted some images of the dead. Someone suggested a scorekeeping contest — and #skullsmackdown was on.

If you want your work to be replicable, you can e.g. study MSS in #ecodices, #BiblioPhilly, some marked PD in the British Library, all PDFs in gallica and EVERY LIBRARY AND ARCHIVE SUBJECT TO GERMAN FED. LAW. We can do better - today.

YAY! Five minutes via anonymous FTP, and I have my very own copy of The Collins Hours, so I can screengrab things like these two angels surrounding the miniature on f. 22v (The Resurrection). #bibliophilly https://t.co/Un8Foc7Eqy